Don't post on a message board for all to see your hypocrisy if you don't want to be called out on it. Or don't be a hypocrite works just as well. You gave Obama and Democrats zero slack if things weren't done to perfection and solved every problem (remember our conversations about the ACA), and yet here you are, going out of your way to find something positive about this "deal", of which has been done before, multiple times, without success. To be clear though, I don't think you are a racist, you are just much more tribal than you think.
My you are a fulsome twat today.
Obama was in office for eight years. In that time I had two major bones of contention, the sloppy ACA and the lack of spine regarding MJ. I also didn't care for what I saw with Assad early on when it looked like we were going to attack. Kerry put his foot in his mouth so that was the end of that. "Done to perfection and solved every problem" is so hyperbolic as to take your argument and strangle it in the vagina of rationalism. Let that imagery soak in.
You have asked for this, full pedantic, well not full on because it's boring and unnecessary.
Trump has created an event. That's pretty much it right there in "praise", faint praise indeed. But events are the catalysts for others. Like electrons in an orbit, one cannot "localize" a particular location or consequence. But not all areas in the cloud are equally probable. Likewise so are events in history- you never know exactly what will happen until the event "collapses" from probability to reality.
Now you have gotten pretty weird with insisting there is a linkage between my speculation as to possibilities and some admiration for Trump. Let's consider another "genius" as you apparently think I think of Trump- Gavrilo Princip. You know who he is, right? Let me refresh your memory. There was this really big conflict, the "War to End All Wars", The "Great War", AKA WWI. I'll assume you heard of it.
Well here's the thing. There was a lot going on in Europe at the time, and we got this huge honking war out of it. Why? Because of the Trumpian genius of Gavrilo. You wouldn't think he was the greatest mastermind of the day, but by the "logic" you use he must of been. Gav, I'll call him Gav, was the final straw, the tiny spark, and other metaphors which caused the house of cards which was Europe to be caught up in a most horrific of wars. Yes Gav did all that! What a brilliant if sinister man, to be able to look and see what needed to be done and then do it.
Yeah, that was something, just like Trump is a genius.
Now, this farcical thought process is what you have just performed by assuming I gave Trump any real credit for "genius". Trump has created an event, and by doing so has started things in motion. When the "wave function" is collapsed, when the electron is located, what the fate of the cat is once the box is opened is anyone's guess.
Fun fact- Did you know that intelligence agencies make assessments of foreign players, leaders in particular? It's true! Even black presidents can benefit from it, shocking I know. Something you may not know is that these aren't designed like algorithms, with "Do this and Putin does that". No, it's more like assessments of quantum states, the generation of clouds of probabilities of responses based on observable traits and psychological methodology. Intelligent people *even black ones* (you really asked for this) know or are at least able to be taught and understand this. Obama was pretty good with diplomatic assessments, whether he was mindful in a metacognative way or not of his methodology. Oh, he wasn't perfect so I suppose that's one for you tally sheet. Pretty good though, better than his predecessor for sure. That was a white guy BTW.
So while you may be incapable of differentiating all this, I am not "giving credit", I am looking at an event which causes a cascade of other like in the decay of a particle, and attempting to determine as best I may the probabilities of outcome downstream. How smart does this particle have to be to decay? How smart did Gav have to be? How smart does Trump have to be?
The question is entirely inapplicable. It's the current state and events which occur which trigger others.
Within the cloud of possible outcomes that is you, I have formed an opinion as to likely probabilities.
You seemsto be reasonably intelligent but you need to get that blood-sucking partisan parasitic tick out of your mind every now and again. Not everything is about Dems, or Reps or Obama. In this instance, Trump serves as a catalyst and most of them I've come upon aren't very clever.